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GOP proposal could slash food aid for millions, new analysis warns
As House Republicans push for deep SNAP cuts and expanded work requirements, experts warn the proposal would strip food assistance from millions of low-income people—including families, older adults, and veterans—without improving employment.
How Musk sold out America’s veterans
The VA intends to fire more than 80,000 workers—many of them veterans themselves—in coming months.
A national asbestos-exposure registry of veterans could combat misdiagnosis in mesothelioma...
Many U.S. veterans are suffering from asbestos-related illnesses due to past military exposure, highlighting the urgent need for a national asbestos-exposure registry to improve early detection, diagnosis, and access to VA benefits.
Trump and Musk’s plan to slash 83,000 VA jobs sparks outrage
A leaked internal memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has revealed that the Trump administration, in coordination with Elon Musk’s...
American troops as migrants
What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.
Exposed to agent orange at US bases, veterans face cancer without...
The half dozen veterans who spoke with KFF Health News said they want the military to take responsibility.
How America can better care for its veterans
Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.
To hell and back
It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?
Department of Veteran Affairs exceeds goal of providing safe, stable homes...
The VA permanently housed 40,401 homeless veterans.
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The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large
The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.
Medicaid on the chopping block: GOP budget advances as disabled protesters cry, ‘You will...
Republicans push deep Medicaid cuts in late-night sessions as disabled protesters are arrested, and millions face the loss of life-saving coverage.
‘This is where kids with cancer are’: Israel bombs Gaza hospitals, kills dozens as...
U.S.-backed Israeli strikes destroy hospitals in Khan Younis, killing patients, staff, and journalists as Gaza’s health system nears total collapse under allegations of war crimes.
Poof! It’s gone
The America we once knew...gone!
Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.